BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community?

dave seddon dave.seddon.ca at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 02:44:01 CET 2014


Greetings,

Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm trying to work out how to set the
extended communities.  Anybody know how to set the Link Bandwidth Extended
communities?

As defined here:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-04

Where we're hoping to do this:
http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.1/topics/topic-map/bgp-multipath-unequal.html

Basically, need to set the community to:
"
   This document defines a specific application of the two-octet AS
   specific extended community.  IANA is requested to assign a sub- type
   value of 0x04 for the link bandwidth extended community.


      Name                                           Value
      ----                                           -----
      non-transitive Link Bandwidth Ext. Community  0x4004
"

I've been reading at the data types section of the bird doco (
http://bird.network.cz/?get_doc&f=bird-5.html ), and trying different way
for a while now, and just don't seem to be able to get it right.

e.g.
export filter { bgp_ext_community.add((4, 65300, 999)); accept; };
( Mostly stolen from this nice example:
http://bird.mpls.in/projects/mpls-bird/wiki/Bird_pe/2 )

On a juniper this is a config to apply a link bandwidth community:
-------------------------
protocols {
    bgp {
        group CORE {
            type internal;
            description "core full mesh";
            passive;
            log-updown;
            family inet {
                unicast;
            }
            family inet-vpn {
                unicast;
            }
            export [ beer ];
            peer-as 65300;
            local-as 65300;
            multipath;
            neighbor 10.1.0.2 {
                description bird1;
                local-address 10.1.0.1;
            }
        }
    }
policy-options {
    policy-statement beer {
        from {
            route-filter 9.9.9.9/32 exact;
        }
        then {
            community add beer;
            accept;
        }
    }
    community beer members bandwidth:65300:9999;
}
-------------------------
So the community "beer" has this value "bandwidth" which the junos knows is
0x04.

In bird it looks like this:
-------------------------
bird> show route 9.9.9.9/32 all
9.9.9.9/32         via 10.1.0.1 on VLAN100 [core 17:38:44] * (100/0) [i]
    Type: BGP unicast univ
    BGP.origin: IGP
    BGP.as_path:
    BGP.next_hop: 10.1.0.1
    BGP.local_pref: 100
    BGP.ext_community: (unknown 0x4, 65300, 1176255488)
-------------------------

When tcpdump-ed the update has the values: 0x0004 ff14 461c3c00

Attached is the pcap of the bgp update with the community value set via the
juniper.

Kind regards,
Dave
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